Radio Therapy - National Board Of Examination

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RADIO THERAPY
PAPER
- I
NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
: 3 hours
Max. Marks : 100
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What is cyber knife? Discuss in short its principles e
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5. Write short note on Tumour volumes in RT planning of brain tumors onty'
6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of three-D conformal
radiotherapy? Give brief published evidence'
7 . What is proton therapy? Give physical rationale and clinical application'
8. Discuss different optrons of treatment available for cancer cervix stage I B'
9. Describe the indicatrons and techniques of total body inadiation'
10. What is randomized clinically controlledouble blind trial? What are the
methods to collect enormous follow up data for final analysis for sucn
trials?
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FINAL EXAM
DECEMBER 2O1O
NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
RADIO THERAPY
PAPER - II
Time : 3 hours
Max, Marks : 100
RTHIDI'IOI41III
Attempt all questions in order.
Each question carries 10 marks.
1. Draw and describe the vorume and portars for irradiation of carcinoma of
maxillary antrum.
2. what is erective para-aortic rymph node irradiation in carcinoma uterine
cervix? Discuss advantages and disadvantages of this technique?
3. How organ preservation is done in carcinoma of supraglottic larynx?
4' Discuss rore of taxenes as radiosensitizers. Give some references.
S Discuss high dose chemotherapy in breast cancer. Discuss its advantages
and disadvantages.
6. what is photo dynamic therapy? Discuss its components and apprications.
7 what are the methods to enhance the effect of chemotherapeutic agents
on tumour being treated by it?
8' Enumerate various chemotherapy regimens for pNET. Give fuil detairs of
therapeutic regimen for Ewing,sarcoma.
L Discuss chemotherapeutic regimens for epithelial ovarian cancers.
10. How do you justify re-emergence of radiotherapy rn ovarian cancers?
Outline the most suitable radiation technique in ovarian cancers.
POSSESSTON / USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCiI ELECTROIV'C GADOETS ,S 'VOr PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINANON HALL.

FINAL EXAM
DECEMBER 201O
NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
PAPER - III
Time : 3 hours
Max. Marks : 100
RTH/D/10/41lil1
Attempt all questions in order.
Each question carries 10 marks.
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2.
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7.
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9.
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What are the methods and indications for radiofrequency ablation?
Enumerate sentinel node biopsy sites. what is the significance of doing
sentinel lymph node biopsy in oncological management?
Justify role of intra-peritoneal chemotherapy, its biological basis and the
malignancies that can be treated with it.
Strategies and infrastructure to manage febrile neutropenra.
What are Gliadel Wafers and why they are thoughto be advantageous?
what is new with regards to radiation in breast conservation techniques in
Carcinoma of breast?
Describe in brief the principres of pET-cr. Enumerate its rore in
oncological management with special reference to lympnomas.
What is tomotherapy? Discuss its principle and construction. How it
differs from linac based arc therapy?
Write a short note on preventive oncology.
Enumerate radiation and chemotherapy toxicity modifiers. Discuss one of
them in detail.
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FINAL EXAM
DECEMBER 201O
NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
PAPER _ IV
Time : 3 hours
Max. Marks : 100
RTH/D/'t0/41ltV
Attempt all questions in order.
Each question carries 10 marks.
1.
2.
4.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Discuss strategies of nutritional back-up for the patients receiving
radiation, chemoradiation and high dose chemotherapy.
What are the current issues in normal tissue tolerance? Enumerate 15
sites and their radiation tolerance.
Enumerate oncological emergencies. What are the fundamentals of their
management?
What are different dose rates used in brachytherapy? Describe biological
basis of HDR and PDR brachytherapy and advantages & disadvantages
of each.
Discus survival analysis in oncology and discuss the merits and demerits
of the methods used in the survival analysis.
Describe pathophysiology of radiotherapy and chemotherapy induced
nausea/vomiting. Outline the management of this condition.
Discuss management of haematuria in patients who have received whole
pelvic radiation in the past.
What is the significance of positioning and immobilization in radiation
therapy? What are the steps in the process of patient set up and how to
improve its accuracy?
Discuss principles of palliation.
management of cancer.
Describe stages involved in pain
Describe radio biological basis of fractionation. Discuss various altered
fractionation regimens used in Radiotherapy.
POSSESS'O'V / USE O F CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERM'|TED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.